I honestly don’t know how long it’s going to take for the gravity of the situation to set in for people that played COH2 and then played COH3.
I think it's more about making the best out of an unoptimal situation right now. It's not like there's any other options other than abandoning our favourite game franchise. CoH2 is gonna be super dead no matter how we twist it or what happens to CoH3.
And personally I think there's real hope, CoH3 has many problems right now but it's nothing compared to the absolute trainwreck that the CoH2 launch was, yet the game survived for almost 10 years.
I'm a CoH fanatic and hence can kinda overlook all the flaws and have a shit-ton of fun with CoH3, that's also why I left a positive review on Steam. But I'm definitely not running around and encouraging people to buy the game for the full price or anything like that.
Btw these "dropping playerbase" datas need to be taken with a grain of salt with a game that isn't pure MP. Surely some people got turned away from the multiplayer because they don't like the game in its current state, but many of these dropping numbers are simply people who finished the camapign(s) and then quit the game because they never intended to play MP in the first place.
What people also need to understand is that with a game like CoH, hardcore multiplayer gamers like us who put thousands of hours into the game, are a super tiny minority when it comes to overall playerbase.